January 26: A fresh shake-up has been broke out within top Burmese generals this morning, according to the ceasefire groups in northern Burma. Vice-Chairman of junta’s State Peace and Development Council Vice-Senior General Maung Aye was rounded up at undisclosed location in capital Rangoon and his office was closed down.
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A top member of Burma’s ruling junta has claimed that foreign and domestic forces are trying to derail the process of creating a new constitution-something this tightly controlled country has not had since the military seized power in 1988.
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Burma has banned poultry imports from countries struck by bird flu, after new outbreaks were discovered in Thailand and Vietnam, a livestock official said Wednesday.
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Dhaka: Religious rioting is now spreading a town near Kyauk Pru and 3 monasteries have been besieged by army personnel, said a Buddhist monk.
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January 26: Sangkhalaburi: About a hundred families fled to Mon resettlement camp near Thai Burma border during this month after their homes were destroyed by Burma Army, Mon Relief and Development Committee reported.
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January 26: Rangoon: Increased cooperation from the public is needed to prevent the environmental conditions in which mosquitoes bearing dengue haemorrhagic fever can thrive, said a senior Health Ministry official.
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January 26: Rangoon: Myanmar Burmese banks that handle foreign currency have since 1 January required that customer service fees be paid in US dollars or euros rather than in kyats, the Ministry of Finance and Revenue announced last week.
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Bangkok — Never again.

Those are the empty words that have long wafted in the rarified air of high-level, important-sounding diplomatic gatherings; words made to sound sincere by gifted speechwriters, crafted meticulously and couched in just the right sentences so that the listener will feel that lump in his throat and have to choke back tears.
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Yangon: A top member of Myanmar’s ruling junta has warned that foreign and domestic forces are trying to derail the process of creating a new constitution – something this tightly controlled country has not had since the military seized power in 1988.
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Akyab: All army battalions under Western Command, including border outposts, are now in ready position after the army authority ordered them under high alert, said a report from Akyab.
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January 25: Dhaka: A religious riot broke out in a town of Arakan on January 20, leaving at least 3 people dead, said the All Arakan Students and Youths Congress (AASYC).
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January 24: Instead of lending a helping hand to the Burmese Tsunami survivors in Thailand, the Military Junta has collected money and fined video rental shops for renting videos of the disastrous Tsunami and relief work.
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Dhaka: The issue surrounding the tri-partisan gas pipeline project is not on the agenda of a talk involving Indian and Bangladeshi Prime Ministers during the upcoming SAARC summit.
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Kuala Lumpur: Southeast Asian nationals will no longer need to obtain visas when travelling to 10 countries in the region by the end of this year, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said in remarks published by the Star newspaper.
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United Nations officials have held talks with authorities in southern Thailand on the plight of foreign migrant workers caught up in last month’s tsunami disaster.
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January 25: New Delhi: Ethnic groups of Burma staged a rally in New Delhi, the capital of India against SPDC’s brutalities on religion in Burma yesterday.
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Yangon: At least two defense lawyers and a dozen crying relatives were turned away from Myanmar’s notorious Insein prison Tuesday, where special tribunals are under way for 300 people linked to the disbanded military intelligence services.
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Several informed sources in Rangoon reported that a high ranking military intelligence official died while detained in Insein Prison.
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Maungdaw: On January 19 the World Food Program, WFP, was robbed of a large amount of food aid in Maung Daw Township, a western Arakan border town, according to police sources.
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Beijing: One of China’s most-wanted drug barons, Ma Shunsu, has been arrested in Myanmar and handed over to Chinese authorities, state media reported Tuesday.
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